A number of residents have expressed support for Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer’s plan to fire two United Progressive Party (UPP) Senators who rejected the Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP) Bill.

Senator Joanne Massiah went to bat for the Antigua & Barbuda Intellectual Property and Commerce Office yesterday, drawing attention to the lack of funding and personnel, which hampers the department.

Following calls for his resignation, chairman of the Antigua & Barbuda Social Security Board, Everett Christian said his executive has performed “better than any previous board.

Eighteen. That’s the number of workers who will be jobless when US carrier American Airlines outsources its local operations to Airport Services Antigua, beginning November 1.

Antigua-based employees of American Airlines inched one day closer to retrenchment without their hopes that union or government intervention could reverse their fortunes being realised.

The union representing airport security workers said yesterday that it had received confirmation that overdue salaries, which prompted industrial action this week, have been paid.

Relations between a senior manager at LIAT, Desmond Brown and two executives of the Antigua & Barbuda Workers’ Union

LIAT’s Corporate Communications Manager Desmond Brown has drawn the ire of the Antigua & Barbuda Workers Union (ABWU) for his comments that trade unions had introduced new conditions in negotiations on closing ticketing offices across the region.

LIAT’s decision to terminate 70 workers in the midst of negotiations with their bargaining agents could lead to industrial action at the Antigua-based carrier,

Staff at First Caribbean International Bank (FCIB) sent a message to management yesterday after news began circulating that some workers would be terminated